Dictionary Entry
balance
balance is a 7-letter English word with 37 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An apparatus for weighing. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 15 · 37 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
An apparatus for weighing.
- 2noun
Act of weighing mentally; comparison; estimate.
- 3noun
Equipoise between the weights in opposite scales.
- 4noun
The state of being in equipoise; equilibrium; even adjustment; steadiness.
- 5noun
An equality between the sums total of the two sides of an account; as, to bring one's accounts to a balance; -- also, the excess on either side; as, the balance of an account.
- 6noun
A balance wheel, as of a watch, or clock. See Balance wheel (in the Vocabulary).
- 7noun
The constellation Libra.
- 8noun
The seventh sign in the Zodiac, called Libra, which the sun enters at the equinox in September.
- 9noun
A movement in dancing. See Balance. i., S.
- 10noun
To bring to an equipoise, as the scales of a balance by adjusting the weights; to weigh in a balance.
- 11noun
To support on a narrow base, so as to keep from falling; as, to balance a plate on the end of a cane; to balance one's self on a tight rope.
- 12noun
To equal in number, weight, force, or proportion; to counterpoise, counterbalance, counteract, or neutralize.
- 13noun
To compare in relative force, importance, value, etc.; to estimate.
- 14noun
To settle and adjust, as an account; to make two accounts equal by paying the difference between them.
- 15noun
To make the sums of the debits and credits of an account equal; -- said of an item; as, this payment, or credit, balances the account.
- 16noun
To arrange accounts in such a way that the sum total of the debits is equal to the sum total of the credits; as, to balance a set of books.
- 17noun
To move toward, and then back from, reciprocally; as, to balance partners.
- 18noun
To contract, as a sail, into a narrower compass; as, to balance the boom mainsail.
- 19intransitive verb
To have equal weight on each side; to be in equipoise; as, the scales balance.
- 20intransitive verb
To fluctuate between motives which appear of equal force; to waver; to hesitate.
- 21intransitive verb
To move toward a person or couple, and then back.
- 22noun
a scale for weighing; depends on pull of gravity
- 23noun
a wheel that regulates the rate of movement in a machine; especially a wheel oscillating against the hairspring of a timepiece to regulate its beat
- 24noun
a weight that balances another weight
- 25noun
(mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane
- 26noun
harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design)- John Ruskin
"in all perfectly beautiful objects there is found the opposition of one part to another and a reciprocal balance"
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- 27noun
the seventh sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about September 23 to October 22
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- 28noun
(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Libra
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- 29noun
equality between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account
- 30noun
the difference between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account
- 31noun
something left after other parts have been taken away
"there was no remainder"
"he threw away the rest"
- 32noun
equality of distribution
- 33noun
a state of equilibrium
- 34verb
hold or carry in equilibrium
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- 35verb
compute credits and debits of an account
- 36verb
bring into balance or equilibrium
"She has to balance work and her domestic duties"
"balance the two weights"
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- 37verb
be in equilibrium
"He was balancing on one foot"
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